International studio (40.1910)

Recent Work by Mr. Cayley Robinson

invisible watcher. This
kind of art is content to
appeal by the forces
which belong to painting ;
it does not encroach on
literary fields, and the
simplicity, the sometimes
almost empty - sounding
titles are useful in saving
those who are always con-
founding the province of
painting with that of litera-
ture. It is quite common
for people to speak as if
all ideas that can be con-
veyed in words are literary
ideas. All ideas are, in
a sense, literary, but the
subjective world as much
as the objective one
belongs to painting.

"the bridge by cayley robinson or o

No one will dispute
this artist's sense of design,

SOME RECENT WORK OF MR. though they may feel it to be limited, and mark its
CAYLEY ROBINSON. BY T. repetitions, but even in this they will be aware
MARTIN WOOD more of the insistence on certain moods than

exhaustion of invention. The artist prefers that a
In the Carfax Gallery a year ago a room was dignified architectural sense of drawing should
hung entirely with the
pictures of Mr. Cayley
Robinson, and one real-
ized above everything in
connection with the artist's
work, that he was construct-
ing in it a haunted region.
Even in his more every-
day subjects — groups of
children by the fire—the
significance of the picture
seems not to lie in the
scene, but the feeling that
the fates themselves are
concealed — that some-
thing is portending. The
figures seem to be stand-
ing at the margin of an
imaginary world, without
passing into it, and a
knowledge of destiny is
seen in their eyes. In
the picture The Two
Sisters all the figures look
as if they felt that they

were watched by some ' ^"the roman legionaries" by cayley robinson

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